Re: yet another $(case ... parse bug

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/23/24 1:19 PM, Oğuz wrote:
> See:
>
> $ bash -c 'for (( $(case x in x) esac);; )); do :; done'
> bash: -c: line 1: syntax error: `;' unexpected
> bash: -c: line 1: syntax error: `(( $(case x in x)
>
>      ;;
> esac);; ))'

Thanks for the report. This should be a pretty easy fix; just use
extract_command_subst() in the right place.

Chet

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